# 蔽

| 蔽 | U+853D, &#34109; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-853D |
| ← 蔼 [U+853C] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蔾 → [U+853E] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蔽 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+12, 16 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 15 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿火月大 (TFBK), four-corner 4424$_8$, composition ⿱艹敝(GHTJK))

#### Derived characters

* 虌, 𮜣

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1056, character 15
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31888
* Dae Jaweon: page 1519, character 12
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3277, character 19
* Unihan data for U+853D

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 蔽 | *peds |
| 鄨 | *peds, *ped |
| 鷩 | *peds, *ped |
| 彆 | *peds, *peːd |
| 潎 | *pʰeds, *pʰed |
| 斃 | *beds, *bed |
| 敝 | *beds, *bed |
| 幣 | *beds |
| 弊 | *beds |
| 鱉 | *ped |
| 虌 | *ped |
| 憋 | *ped, *pʰed, *peːd |
| 瞥 | *pʰed, *pʰeːd |
| 鐅 | *pʰed, *pʰeːd |
| 嫳 | *bed, *pʰeːd |
| 撇 | *pʰeːd |
| 撆 | *pʰeːd |
| 暼 | *pʰeːd |
| 蹩 | *beːd |
| 襒 | *beːd |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *peds) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bì (bi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bai$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pè
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bì
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bì
*** Wade–Giles: pi$^4$
*** Yale: bì
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
*** Palladius: би (bi)
*** Sinological IPA : /pi⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bai$^3$
*** Yale: bai
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bai$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bei$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /pɐi̯³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pè
*** Tâi-lô: pè
*** Phofsit Daibuun: pex
*** IPA (Xiamen): /pe²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pe⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /pe²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /pe¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /pe²¹/
* Middle Chinese: pjiejH
Rime :
| Character | 蔽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 祭 (35) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 必袂切 |
| Baxter | pjiejH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /piᴇi$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /piɛi$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /pjæi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /piaj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /piɛi$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /pĭɛi$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /pi̯ɛi$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | bì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | bai$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*pe[t]-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*peds/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 蔽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | bì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ pjiej$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*pe[t]-s/ |
| English | cover (v.) |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 蔽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 627 |
| Phonetic component | 敝 |
| Rime group | 祭 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 蔽 |
| Old Chinese | /*peds/ |

### Definitions

蔽
* to cover; to hide; to conceal
* to summarize; to sum up

### Compounds

* 一言以蔽之 (yīyán yǐ bì zhī)
* 一言蔽之 (yīyánbìzhī)
* 古木蔽天
* 壅蔽 (yōngbì)
* 屏蔽 (píngbì)
* 屏蔽罐
* 干雲蔽日
* 幽蔽
* 建蔽率
* 才蔽識淺 / 才蔽识浅
* 扞蔽
* 掩蔽 (yǎnbì)
* 掩蔽部 (yǎnbìbù)
* 旌旗蔽天
* 旌旗蔽日 (jīngqíbìrì)
* 旌旗蔽空
* 林蔭蔽天 / 林荫蔽天
* 泥水自蔽
* 浮雲蔽日 / 浮云蔽日
* 濃蔭蔽空 / 浓荫蔽空
* 烏雲蔽日 / 乌云蔽日
* 矇蔽 / 蒙蔽 (méngbì)
* 蒙蔽 (méngbì)
* 蔭蔽 / 荫蔽
* 蔽匿
* 蔽塞 (bìsè)
* 蔽天 (bìtiān)
* 蔽屣 (bìxǐ)
* 蔽席
* 蔽形術 / 蔽形术
* 蔽日 (bìrì)
* 蔽月羞花
* 蔽獄 / 蔽狱
* 蔽空
* 蔽聰塞明 / 蔽聪塞明
* 蔽膝 (bìxī)
* 蔽芾 (bìfèi)
* 蔽賢 / 蔽贤 (bìxián)
* 蔽賢寵頑 / 蔽贤宠顽
* 蔽身
* 蔽身處 / 蔽身处
* 蔽遮
* 蔽野
* 蔽面
* 蔽體 / 蔽体
* 衣不蔽體 / 衣不蔽体
* 覆蔽
* 遮天蔽日 (zhētiānbìrì)
* 遮蔽 (zhēbì)
* 錮蔽 / 锢蔽
* 防蔽耳目
* 障蔽 (zhàngbì)
* 隱天蔽日 / 隐天蔽日
* 隱蔽 / 隐蔽 (yǐnbì)
* 隱蔽性 / 隐蔽性

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* cover, hide, conceal

#### Readings

* Go-on: へ (he)
* Kan-on: へい (hei, Jōyō)
* Kun: おおう (ōu, 蔽う)

#### Compounds

* 隠蔽(いんぺい) (inpei): concealment
* 掩蔽(えんぺい) (enpei): concealment, masking, cloaking
* 遮蔽(しゃへい) (shahei): shield (from sunlight, or human eyes)

## Korean
### Hanja

蔽 • (pye, byeol, bul) (hangeul 폐, 별, 불, revised pye, byeol, bul, McCune–Reischauer p'ye, pyŏl, pul, Yale phyey, pyel, pul)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

蔽: Hán Việt readings: tế, phất
蔽: Nôm readings: tế
* chữ Hán form of tế (“protect, hide”).

### References

* 1 2 Trần (2004).
* ↑ Trần (1999).
* 1 2 Nguyễn (1974).
* 1 2 Thiều Chửu (1942).